
{"id":16429,"date":"2011-03-09T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=16429"},"modified":"2011-03-09T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:55:46","slug":"sales-tax-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/03\/09\/sales-tax-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales-tax hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Tuesday to gather public comment on a potential Nov. 8 referendum on a quarter-cent sales tax. <\/p>\n<p>In it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2007 budget, the legislature gave counties the option of a quarter-cent sales-tax increase of a 0.4 percent land-transfer tax to help compensate for money taken away from counties when the responsibility for paying for Medicaid was turned over to the state. A sales-tax referendum was narrowly defeated in the November 2010 election and commissioners have said they would like to revisit the measure. The sales tax is expected to generate $2.5 million annually. <\/p>\n<p>The hearing will be held during the board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Tuesday to gather public comment on a quarter-cent sales tax. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16430,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions\/16430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}